Name my resolution

Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve. I don’t believe much in New Year’s resolutions, but if you guys can arrive at a consensus for what resolution I should make and keep in the new year, I’ll do it. The way I see it, I know myself worse than the rest of you.

Suggestions, to get the ball rolling:

1. Learn to juggle
2. Stop being so darned sexy
3. Be more curt to trollish commenters.

Failing that, what are your resolutions? What does Mormon culture have to say about New Years’ Resolutions? Is the practice of a ‘resolution’ consistent with the general approach of seeking a Christlike life?

My mother always said we shouldn’t make resolutions but “set goals.” And I always wondered what the heck the difference was, but I never did either in any case. Until I got to be an adult, and then I both made resolutions and set goals, but I have yet to accomplish anything I’ve set out to do, so whatever.

How do you propose to align nucleotide and amino acid sequences? Tedious, manually-adjusted kerning?! Perhaps the space-traveling aliens—who surely must appreciate a good ClustalW—have been avoiding as opposed to ignoring….

Ah, BrianJ… there is a whole world of monospaced fonts out there! Okay, maybe not a whole world. Maybe only a tenth of a world because people are just more into proportional fonts. How about a lovely DejaVu Sans Mono or Prestige?

I know, I’m in the minority on this one. But Courier is just so… hideous! Surely we deserve a better font to represent humanity!

I recently learned that screenplays are to be formatted using Courier. While I can completely understand how Courier is very useful for align nucleotide and amino acid sequences, what purpose does it serve in screenplays?! Sadly, now I can never write a screenplay. To corrupt my certain-to-be brilliant story (stop laughing) into such a horrible font…. Tragedy!

Tanya, in my own life I have always found the greater tragedy to be found in allowing aesthetic concerns to rob the world of my creative genius. Pehaps you can use that as a resolution of your own. You’re welcome.

1. Try not to kill my teenagers (I make this resolution every year).
2. Succeed this year in getting to the end of the Internet.
3. Stalk Steve Evans less.
4. Give pithier and well thought out comments on others’ blogs.
5. Move to a warmer climate. Or at least think warmer….
6. Start going backwards on my birthdays. While I’m 50 now, I’ll soon turn 49….